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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Hero Arts Hostess Blog Hop Day 2

It's my favorite time of the year...Hero Hostess Blog Hop time!! It's so much fun to share this wonderful camaraderie with all of the talented hostesses. This is a group I feel very privileged to be a part of.

Hero Arts will be awarding prizes from randomly drawn comments.For a chance to win, simply comment on ANY of the stops along the hop on ANY day, including each day’s starting post at the Hero Club Blog. The more comments you leave, the better your chance of winning!If youfind a broken link, you'll find a master list of the hop links at the Hero Club Blog. Also, please report broken links to Tami.

You should have arrived here from Living the Dream, my sweet friend, Judy's blog. I hope you left her lots of comment love!I just love everything in the new 2012 Hero Arts Catalog...my wishlist is a mile long! I love anything text and collage-y so I used that theme to make some Thank You cards. Check out the inlinkz links at the end of this post for all the products I used.

This card uses some Sticky back canvas and an old product in my stash called Shimmering Pearls. They work like Twinkling H2Os. Hero Arts stamps used: Newspaper Background and Greeting Cling set.

Next I tilted the butterfly collage stamp vertically and got all inky:

I used Distress inks to watercolor the butterfly, add splatters and distress the edges of the panel. The background is the Newspaper Eiffel Tower...I love this stamp! I left the background as is so the distressed panel would take center stage.

This time I stamped the Butterfly Greeting image on a patterned paper die cut label:

I stamped the Newspaper Background with Stormy Sky Distress ink on white cs then over-stamped the butterfly portion of the stamp with brown ink. I cut out just the wings and paper-pieced them to the panel. To finish the panel I added some more inky splatters and white dots with a gel pen. I also outlined the label with the white pen. The background is an old favorite from Hero Arts, Old Letter Writing.

The final card features the Newspaper Background and a great frame and sentiment clear set called Sending You Love:

I stamped the Newspaper Background once near the top of the panel using Stormy Sky Distress ink and again on the bottom with Art Print Brown ink. The sentiment frame was stamped with Stormy Sky, cut out and hole punched. The flourishes are from the Hero Arts/Sizzix Floral Stamp and Die set. A few gems and it's done.

Wow Nancy, what stunning cards! It's wonderful seeing all the different ways you've used the butterfly stamp from the Greeting set and your last card is absolutely gorgeous too! Thanks for all the inspiration:)

Thanks for highlighting the various ways to use a single stamp - great for the budget-minded! Each butterfly is unique and lovely. Your layouts are all super, too. You know my heart is with the dear Eiffel Tower card....Je l'adore! Thanks, Nancy!

With each stop my list grows :)) Love all the ideas you gave us using that gorgeous butterfly collage; especially loved the copper and gold touches - magic! So very honored to be sharing this day with you, my friend!

These are just wonderful! I love all the different looks you gave us with the butterflies. All so pretty, but so different. Stamping on fabric is one of those things I really want to try, so I think that's my favorite, but the coloring on the second one is stunning!

Hi Nancy,Yes, I'm with you, I think I want everything in the Hero Arts new release catalog! Your cards are some of my favorites-I think I have some of the Shimmering Pearls myself! Beautiful, beautiful butterfly cards:)

Hi Nanc! I couldn't wait to get here today - knew I would be inspired! Gorgeous cards, my friend! Just love that first one with the canvas - the shimmer looks amazing! Love the different ways you used the butterfly collage too! I think I need to get that Sending You Love, sentiment set - the way you attached it to the card with the string is wonderful, and I love that die cut flourish! Thank you for sharing your fabulous creativity! :)

Fabulous use of the butterfly greeting stamp and it looks gorgeous on canvas especially! I really must get that newspaper background stamp! I can see how versatile it is! Thanks for your comment on my blog!

You used lots of my favorite stamps from the new catalog and after seeing all these beautiful masterpieces, I know that I have to have some of them! Thanks for sharing some wonderful cards! I'm very inspired after seeing these!

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